The air operators have also been advised to maintain a good inventory of spares with proper inter-aircraft pooling arrangement to ensure maintenance.

The seven point guideline stresses on:

Standardisation of maintenance schedules and components;

Improvement in maintenance infrastructure;

Preparation of quarterly quality control reports of aircraft giving the system's reliability, alert values and comparing them with corresponding data of other operators and the industry average;

Refresher courses for engineers;

Maintenance of component history cards;

Installation of the specified transponder (GPWS and Mode

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First Published: Sep 26 1996 | 12:00 AM IST

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